Discounts, loans and financial aid

The UPC School offers advantageous conditions to enrol for its masters’, postgraduate courses and continuous learning courses for alumni, UPC Alumni, disables people, members of professional associations etc. Check the options to apply for one of the discounts we offer on our website or contact us and we will gladly provide you with information.

Outside the UPC School environment, there are a number of bodies and institutions that give general financial support to postgraduate studies. On this page, you can search for the scholarship, loan or finance plan that best suits your needs. You will also find information about other, non-financial types of training support.

You can choose from these two options depending on whether you are interested in our programmes individually (i.e. as a person) or if you are a company wishing to enrol employees in your organisation.

Individuals

Check the options to benefit from discounts offered by the UPC School with advantageous conditions for enrolling for several groups. Discounts may not be accumulated and the largest discount requested will be applied.

Loans imply a personal contract between the person requesting a loan and the entity providing the financial resources for studies.

Select the aid section if you are looking for information on individual training permits that companies may grant to its employees for training during working hours

When granting a discount to alumni, the programme they followed previously will be considered (the type of programme they studied). This means that if they studied a masters’ or postgraduate, they will be eligible to a 10% discount in the next programme; if they were on a continuous learning course they will be eligible to a 5% discount in the next programme.

New call launched for the Employment Help grants for professionals who are unemployed and with incomes that do not exceed a gross monthly income of 20% above the interprofessional minimum wage. Get improved employability with grants for enrolment fees for a selection of masters' and postgraduate programmes.

Find out about discounts you can benefit from as a company if you enrol employees to any of the UPC School training programmes. Discounts may not be accumulated and the largest discount requested will be applied. You can also inform about the PIF bonification that you can receive to train your workers.

TRAINING ACTIONS: Companies have a yearly credit to co-finance training for their workers, based on the taking from the quotas for Professional Training during the previous year. This credit is calculated on the bases of applying a bonus percentage to this quantity that is set out in the Spanish General Budget Act and depends on the number of employees working in the company. This credit becomes effective through bonuses to Social Security contributions, meaning the company can deduct training costs from the social security contributions it pays. INDIVIDUAL

LEARNING PERMIT (PIF): Companies may also authorise Individual Learning Permits (PIF) for workers who apply to follow a course leading to obtaining a university degree. In this case, companies can apply for a bonus to cover salary costs (base salary, seniority, fixed complements and the proportional amount of bonus payments) and payments to the Social Security linked to the working hours (maximum 200 hours) when the worker is using their PIF.

Beneficiaries:

Any company contributing to the Social Security that is up-to-date in all its tax obligations having work centres in Spanish territory.

Requirements:

Meeting the duty to inform the legal representation of employees as set out in article 16 of the Order TAS/2307/2007.

Completing the training which must be related to the company's activity.

Application deadline:

The bonus credit expires every year whether it is used or not. Training must take place entirely in a natural year; meaning it must be completed and notified by the 31st of December. Notifications of the start and end of training are done electronically to the Fundación Estatal para la Formación en el Empleo (Fundae) and this bonus can be made effective using the TC forms; meaning until the last TC of the year is submitted on the 31st of January of the following year.

Further information:

For specific inquiries we advise that you fill out the contact form on the website of the Fundación Estatal para la Formación en el Empleo (Fundae):